Heavenly Tribulation Descends, Where Is Junior Brother?

Price control, put plainly, was commercial in nature.

Take the most ordinary Nine-Leaf Blood-Stanching Grass. It could be used directly as medicine or refined into pills, making it a shared resource for both the Alchemy Path and the Medical Path.

Once trade took shape, spirit plants were assigned a fixed value, whether one Spirit Coin or one Spirit Stone.

Changes in price were dictated by the leading families and passed down layer by layer... prices could not fall below a certain threshold, allowing them to reap exorbitant profits.

Medicinal pills were used by cultivators, while medical principles benefited the common people. Whether in the mortal world or the Cultivation World, they were matters of paramount importance.

The Dynasty's purge of the Medical Clans was, in essence, no different from its earlier purge of the Imperial Strategy Bureau. It simply wanted to seize real control.

"Correct. What Nephew Sun said was more or less right. Our family was squeezed out of the leading families back then because of our old ancestor. Before he entered closed-door cultivation unto death, he left behind a warning: we could only honestly practice medicine and must not concern ourselves with the affairs of medicine."

"So there was such a connection!"

Lin Heng was somewhat puzzled. The Wei Yan family's old ancestor had built such a vast inheritance, yet he had voluntarily surrendered the right to speak in the Medical Path and even forbidden his descendants from touching it.

What was he after?

It was like a founding emperor who had conquered a vast territory, then suddenly told his descendants: from now on, we should just diligently farm the land. Why govern a nation?

The two chatted for a little longer. Only when the conversation was about to end did Lin Heng turn his spearhead toward Ye